HEALTH OF ATHLETES AND SPORTS DENTISTRY APPROACH DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC PROCESS

Abstract

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus that emerged in Wuhan, China's Hubei province started on December 31, 2019. The epidemic spread swiftly to hundreds of countries, started with the identification of the first positive case in Turkey on March 11, 2020. Since then, the pauses, postponements, and cancellations of sports activities caused by COVID-19 has risen to a challenge for sports physicians, coaches, and trainers in discerning best practices for a safe return to sports. Sports medicine has a multidisciplinary approach, in which different medical specialties work together during diagnosis and treatment to prevent health problems of athletes with the integration of sports dentistry into sports medicine, it will contribute to the prevention of dental caries, dental erosions, periodontal diseases, malocclusions and temporomandibular disorders, and other injuries, as well as the follow-up and treatment of these disorders. In this review, the overall effects of COVID-19 in the world of sports, the situations that may adversely affect the oral-dental and general health and performance of the athletes during the pandemic, the precautions to be taken against it, and suggestions for returning to play for sports at the end of this process are mentioned.

Keywords

• Athletes
• SARS-CoV-2
• oral health

COVID-19 PANDEMİSİ SÜRECİNDE SPORCU SAĞLIĞI ve SPOR DİŞ HEKİMLİĞİ YAKLAŞIMI

Abstract

31 Aralık 2019 tarihinde Çin’in Hubei eyaleti Wuhan şehrinde ortaya çıkan ve hızlı bir şekilde yüzlerce ülkeye yayılan SARS-CoV-2 virüsünün sebep olduğu Coronavirus Hastalığı 2019 (COVID-19), ülkemizde 11 Mart 2020 tarihinde ilk pozitif vakanın tanımlanmasıyla başlamıştır. O zamandan beri, COVID-19 nedeniyle spor aktivitelerinde oluşan duraklama, erteleme ve iptaller sonrasında spora güvenli bir dönüş için en iyi uygulamaları seçme konusu spor hekimleri, antrenörler ve eğitmenler için zorluk teşkil etmektedir. Spor hekimliği sporcuların sağlık problemlerinin önlenmesinde farklı tıbbi uzmanlıkların teşhis ve tedavi sırasında birlikte çalıştığı multidisipliner bir yaklaşımdır. Spor diş hekimliğinin spor hekimliğine entegrasyonu ile diş çürükleri, dental erozyonlar, dişeti hastalıkları maloklüzyonlar ve temporomandibular bozukluklar ve diğer yaralanmaların önlenmesinin yanında bu bozuklukların takip ve tedavilerine de katkıda bulunulacaktır. Bu derlemede spor dünyasında COVID-19'un genel etkilerine, pandemi sırasında sporcuların ağız-diş sağlığının genel sağlığa ve sporcu performansı üzerine etkilerine, buna karşı alınması gereken önlemlere ve bu sürecin sonunda spora dönüş için tavsiye edilebilecek önerilere yer verilmiştir.

Keywords

• Ağız sağlığı
• Covid-19
• Sporcular

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